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“Why? It isn’t i as you hire people that do Your father is a wonderful man and I admire him a lot, but his methods are sadly outdated” She te him I just want you to be successful and iht”
“I’ve made a commitment to my father You may be able to back out of a promise without any qualms, but I don’t find it so easy,” he inserted stiffly and started to turn away
“I’ve spoiled the afternoon, haven’t I?” Tara said contritely “I’m sorry”
“It’s the first ti to believe her, yet re how she had tried to press her ambitions on him
“It is, isn’t it?” She laughed “I’ve made soyour forgiveness”
He arched a brow “Now, that would be a novel experience”
“There are a lot of novel experiences we haven’t shared” She leaned toward hiirls learned alathered her into his arhly when it was over She ran the tip of her nail over hiscertainty in her voice was enough to put hio and moved toward the horses to break the spell she’d woven around hiain
When Chase pulled his truck up in front of Sally’s Place, he al’s shade Only the nose of the trailer hitch was poked into the sunlight, and Chase had caught the flash of light reflecting off its metal surface
The sight of it brought hied his direction, and he went over to take a closer look An electric cord ran froh the opened slit of the restaurant’s kitchento hook the trailer to a power supply, and a wooden step had been set out in front of the trailer door to supplement the retractable metal ones A thick fil it had traveled some distance since the last time it had been cleaned
No one seemed to be about, but the ere cranked open, a further indication so in it Chase walked to the rear of the trailer The license plate on the bumper was bent and half covered with road dust The trailer was carrying Texas tags He rubbed enough of the dirt off to read the nuhtened, more puzzled than before
Using the back entrance, he walked through the e door into the restaurant side of the caf6-bar There weren’t any custo the sugar containers
“Hello, Chase” Pleasure glowed in her quietly expressive face “I saw you drive up and wondered where you had disappeared” She continued pouring sugar froh here in a minute Help yourself to some coffee”
“I noticed that trailer parked alongside your building” He took a cup from the plastic rack and filled it with coffee “Who does it belong to?”
“A man named Belto
n Actually there’s threein it, but I think Belton owns it” She screwed on the cap and wiped the outside of the jar before setting it down andher tray to the next table “He cauess it was, and asked if he could park their trailer there and plug into my electricity He offered to pay me seventy-five dollars a ed him fifty”